The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-18

The National Lumber Dealers As
ISOLATION, at its meeting in St Louis, elected
| G. p. Haskins, of Charlton, Iowa, President
| The twenty-seventh annual international con-
vention of the Y. NJ c. A was held at San
Francisco with $50 delegates in attendance
Editor William O'Brien met with an
enthusiastic reception on his arrival in Que
| bee He was met outside the city by depu-
tation of the local Land League. From
| the depot he was driven to the no
tel in carriage driven by four black
horses, and decorated with the Irish
and French flags, and followed by
long procession through the streets,
in which much bunting was displayed He
was afterward taken to the Parliament house,
where he held regular reception, English
and Irish members alike crowding around him
and shaking him warmly by the hand What
was most significant at the meeting in the
evening aside from the crowded house were
letters from Prime Minister MERCER and other
members Of the Government expressing sym
pathy for Ireland and the especial object OF
O'Brien's visit
James G. Blaine, accompanied by his
wife and two daughters, will sail for Europe
| June 8
General Master Workman Powderly
has issued circular to the Knights of Labor
recommending the various assemblies to cele-
brate the next Fourth of July. 1t says:
In the line of march and on your stands and
public places use only one flag--the stars and
stripes. Show 10 the world that no matter
| where the knight of Labor citizen was born he
respects aud honors the United States Nag.
Show to the world that we are determined 70
| find out what is wrong in our system OF gov
| ernment and that we are equally as deter
| mined to right such wrongs as may exist by
| peaceful, legitimate means. | desire also that
the question Of the restoration,pf the peoples
| lands TO the care of the people be discussed.
Pass resolutions declaring that the holding
| of from fifty TO sixty millions of acres OF
the public domain by aliens is sinful
and un-American. Go further and demand that
| the alien landlord shall let 20 his hold. Pass
resolutions declaring that every acre OF land &C
| CURED by fraud, perjury, or ch. canery is an
/ acre stolen and demand that the thief be re-
| quired to make restitution TO the people. Pass
| resolutions TO never take your eyes oil the land
until one good, plain, simple, honest law shall
govern the holding Of land, whether the holder
| be rich or poor individual or corporation Make
the land for the people, under the people, laws,
the question OF the day. 1t was not for air. sun
shine, or water alone that our fathers fought it
| was for the land, and we must hold this land
! free from the shark and the specuator, neither
| native or alien.
The Ocean King, the largest Amer
lean ship ahoat, was burned while on a voy-
age between Nanaimo, b. c, and San Pedro.
The crew escaped
r. G. Dun & Co. report 167 failures
in the United States and Canada during the
week, against 1S2 the previous week. In
their weekly review they say:
great revolution in business is going on.
With radically conflicting accounts of serious
of nd in hraV has
| and of wonderful gains ut other places, or in
| other departments of trade and industry, the
difficulty Of reaching just conclusions is much
| enhanced. The interstate act is but one of
| several causes which contribute TO produce
| this revolution in commerce. expansion in the
volume and change in the kind OF currency is
another not less important. Most unexpect-
ed results are produced; the interstate
| act clearly helps those who bitterly OPP
| posed il, and as clearly INJURIES others who
| expectedogreat benefits from its operations.
| Thus. the river business of the West is ex-
| panding under the influence of the law and
| the railroads at the same time getting
larger earnings from the part OF the traffic they
retain, while not few cities find, as Cincinnati
does that trade in many lines is greatly einbar-
| raised. One general tendency is disclosed by
| the urgent demands for suspension or change of
| the law, especially from those who most favor
ed its enactment Serious diversion of trade
| from Western cities which have been
chief centers of distribution is in progress and a
! multitude of smaller towns are reapipg the
benefit Western products do not, as u rule,
| gain anything in Eastern markets; wheat
has advanced 5]6 cents since the act
| went into effect, corn and oats have de-
| clined fraction, pork is about the same
in price, lard l9@1 cent lower, hogs q cent
lower. and beef sells at the price.
| Cotton has been advanced Il cent, bot this
change, like the rise in wheat is clearly specu-
| lative and therefore threatens reaction through
curtailment of demand. Railroad building is
| not checked by the act as yet, and there is u
probability that, by encouraging traffic at many
| instead of few centeTs Of trade, the law may
| tend 20 the building of numerous local roads
and parallel or rival lines.
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